The Delta independent., 1887-06-14
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES.

The yellow fever has been declared
epidemic at Key West
The remains of ex-Vice- President
Wheeler were buried last Tuesday.
1t is estimated that the decrease IN
the public debt for May was 100000.
Recent rams have materially i'm
proved the crop prospects in the Mississip-
pi Valley.
The damage to timber IN the Upper
Michigan Peninsula by fires is estimated at
&c. .OoO. 600:
The Vatican authorities have re-
ceived $4,000 with which to celebrate tine
Pope's jubilee.
Mr.. Chandler has been chosen to
succeed Mr. Pike, deceased, as Senator
from New Hampshire.
The Collector at boston has fined the
Cunard Steamship Company $1,000 for
landing an insane woman.
New York sidewalk peddlers have
organized union and instituted boycott
| against peddling by wagon. &
Rev. DR.. Reed who left Iowa last
winter as missionary in Central Africa
has been eaten by the cannibals.
The Grand Army people have a de-
pendent pension bill which they viii urge
upon Congress at the next session.
The smallpox is creating frightful
havoc in Santiago de Cuba. The people
trust to prayers instead of vaccination.
The fire losses for May amounted to
$40 636. 500. This Is s,,5oo,0oO more than
the average for the same month in twelve
! years.
Rev. c. c. Frost, Treasurer of the
Hope mine n. Butte, Montana, is chars ed
with being 4 detaul.er. He has disap-
peared.
The Pope's gift to Queen Victoria
in honor of her jubilee is a reproduction in
Mosaic OF Raphael's allegorical figure of
poetry.
Mr.. O'Brien. the Irish agitator. sailed
| leaving be was gwen rousing reception in
New York.
The Iowa Penitentiary has not
| enough inmates to fill the States contracts
for prison labor. Prohibition is considered
responsible.
The elections in Chicago resulted in
the success OF the Citizens ticket and At
torney GrinnelI is sustained. The election
was very quiet.
The steamer St John Lawrence was
lost in a cyclone off the coast of India with
| all on board. There were TSo passengers
besides the crew.
One man has been killed and two
others narrowly escaped the Apaches a.
Tompora Gulch eighty-fye miles south OF
Crittenden. Arizona.
By decision in a ST. Louis court
may occupy all the streets OF that city with
its tracks If II wishes.
1t is reported that E9j. 900. 900 in
hidden treasure has been found in the
palace II the dead Nizier of Morocco and
the Sultan has confiscated 1t.
La Lange.an Alsatian member Of the
ReichstaE. has been ordered 10 leave Alsace
in twenty-iour hours. lie is accused with
being allied with the French.
The Constitutional Prohibitory
Amendment was defeated IN the Massa-
chuse;,s Legislature by a vote of lS9 TO "A,
not the necessary two-thirds.
Two more yellow fever cases are re-
ported at Icy West \ large number OF
the mnacci;matcd have left there, and they
may carry the disease with them.
The friends of division in South Da-
ls and prepare the way for dividing the
Territory into two future States.
The town of Vernomc in Turkestan
was almost destroyed by an earthquake. Ii
is reported that l2o persons were killed and
l25 injured. The shocks still continue.
A London detective says that in the
past four years he has rescued four hun.
dred girls, between the ages of four and a
half and fourteen years, from lives OF
crime.
An omnibus containing n picnic par
ty of forty members was overturned on the
Observatory Road, in the suburbs of Gin.
cinnati, and six persons were seriously in
jured.
A North Carolina clergyman not
only refused 10 marry an eloping couple
but arrested the bride and tclegraphed
her father that he held her subject to his
orders.
The indications are that the Bel
TELEPHONE Company will lose IN the suits tt
upset their patents. The decision will mo-
be rendered by the Supreme Court unit
October.
At Henderson, Kentucky, Professor
Z. S. Clark, Superintendent of Publ,
Schools, was shot and killed by Professor
Thomas Posey. Their onmity was of Ion.
standing.
Captain Williams of tho New Yorl
police, with witnesses, partook of wine a
three prominent hotels. and the Sunda,
question MS to serving guests will be testet
| In the courts